PREVIEW: The Friday Edition. - Some answers to your questions.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
An essential part of Tangle is engaging with readers — through live events, email exchanges, and now in social channels like Reddit and our new texting platform, Subtext. One of the things we’ve done since the beginning is answer a reader question in our main newsletter. Over time, we’ve gotten more questions than we can answer — but many of the questions that haven’t made it into the daily newsletter or podcast are still worth answering.
So every now and then, we devote a members-only Friday edition to getting to our backlog of reader questions. A lot of these allow us to get into more detail and cover ground we might not cover in the daily newsletter, so we love the opportunity to dig in and go deep. Today, the entire Tangle editorial team is answering questions on everything from whether we’ve started to lean more left, to how we spot AI-produced content, to what has actually happened to DOGE. It’s a wide-ranging, jam-packed, fun edition. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are doing a listener mailbag. That's right. We have loads of questions from readers and listeners that we have not gotten to. |
| 0:39.3 | And this is an essential part of the work that we do at Tangle. We have these live events. |
| 0:44.9 | We have email exchanges. We have social channels and Reddit and the texting platform, subtext. |
| 0:51.0 | And one of the things that we've done since the very beginning to engage with our audience |
| 0:54.4 | is answer a question in almost every podcast or newsletter. But we get way more questions than we |
| 1:00.8 | have newsletters or podcasts. So over time, there is this big stack of unanswered questions that |
| 1:07.6 | build up. And then we do a mailbag edition to address a bunch of them. |
| 1:17.4 | It's super fun. I love it because, you know, typically we get to cover in-depth one big issue a day. |
| 1:21.9 | And this really allows us to cover many, which I appreciate. |
| 1:29.1 | So we have a really wide-ranging episode today, Everything from whether we are leaning to the left now, |
| 1:35.2 | to the existence of Doge and what happened to it and has it really shut down, to questions about how our staff spots AI produce content. It's all really good. I very much appreciated |
| 1:42.5 | going through and listening to some of the answers because, |
| 1:46.7 | as you're about to hear, we have our whole staff on today's episode because this is way more |
| 1:51.5 | than just one person can answer. So it's not just me today. We got the whole team here. Will, |
| 1:57.3 | Ari, Audrey, even Camille, Lindsay. It's a, it's the full gang. You guys are going to enjoy it. |
| 2:04.6 | It's a good episode. And let's get into it. |
| 2:14.3 | Thanks for team me up, Isaac. This is senior editor Will Kayback, and I'll be tackling the first question in today's mailbag, which comes from Jacques in Edina, Minnesota, which is actually neighboring the suburb of Minneapolis that I grew up in St. Louis Park. So shout out Minnesota. I love to see the representation. But Jacques asks, as a politically divided |
| 2:36.4 | household, we gladly joined Tangle and encouraged other couples like ourselves to join. My spouse and |
| 2:42.6 | others in our group are no longer reading our take as they feel your organization has become |
| 2:47.9 | significantly more left-leaning in this evaluation section. When we started, |
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